Across
- 4. Extent to which a test measures what it's supposed to
- 7. A group of people from a given time period
- 9. The way an issue is posed can significantly affect decisions & judgements
- 10. The smallest distinctive sound unit
- 12. Impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage to Broca or Wernicke's area
- 14. Attributing the wrong source to an event we experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined
- 15. Smallest unit that carries meaning; word or part of word
- 18. Condition in which a person has a specific exceptional skill while limited in mental ability
- 20. Defining uniform testing procedures & meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
- 21. Clear memory of an emotionally significant memory or event
- 22. Passion & Perserverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
- 23. Early speech where child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns & verbs
- 25. Tendency to be more confident than correct-overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs & judgements
Down
- 1. Expands the number of possible problem solutions
- 2. Inability to retrieve info prior to an event
- 3. Our ability to reason speedily & abstractly; tends to decrease with age
- 5. Disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new info
- 6. Short sensory memory of the visual stimuli
- 8. A mental shortcut to solve problems efficiently; usually prone to errors
- 11. Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
- 13. processing Encoding semantically based on the meaning of the words
- 16. Proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
- 17. At 4 months, infant utters various spontaneous sounds
- 19. determinism Whorf's hypothesis that language determines
- 24. Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful